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Jack Scott

@jackscottau.aus.social.ap.brid.gy

Hi everyone! I'm a software engineer running my own IT consulting firm, trying to make technology a little bit better for everyone. When I'm not doing that, I dabble […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ aus.social/@jackscottau, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Jack Scott @jackscottau.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

@chrisjrn and not like this

List of businesses with "42" in the name, because that was one of the numbers in my search

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Jack Scott @jackscottau.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

@chrisjrn Something like this

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Jack Scott @jackscottau.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

Turns out there is a wrong way to coil a USB cable.

A vacuum cleaner head with a USB charging cable wrapped around the rotating brush.

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Jack Scott @jackscottau.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2026

#Xero continues to be money well spent... God forbid I'd like to process payroll.

Xero dashboard error message saying the page can't be loaded, and linking to the status page.

Xero status page. Headline is "Xero is now stable". The detail underneath says they are investigating issues.

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Jack Scott @jackscottau.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2026

Xero's "Ultimate 10" plan actually means 10% annual price inflation. #Xero #SmallBusiness #Enshittification

An email warning of an upcoming price hike for Xero.

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Jack Scott @jackscottau.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/05/2026

If Microsoft doesn't want us to develop software for Windows, they can just say so... (the screenshot was taken in Edge) #Microsoft #VisualStudio

A screenshot of a warning message in Edge: "VisualStudioSetup.exe isn't commonly downloaded. Make sure you trust VisualStudioSetup.exe before you
open it."

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Jack Scott @jackscottau.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/01/2026

Just got presented with an advertisement *inside* the #Azure portal. What the actual are #Microsoft thinking?

A view of an SQL database management page inside the Azure portal, with an ad reading "Join us at SQLCON Atlanta..."

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Jack Scott @jackscottau.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2025

Two new arrivals in one day! They must have known about the severe weather warning for tonight! #Farming #CowsOfMastodon

Photo of a cow with her calf. A different cow and calf to the last photo.

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Jack Scott @jackscottau.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2025

Today in #OSDev: I started writing a device driver for the ATI Rage 128 (circa 1999). Using hardware registers, not VGA/VBE BIOS calls. Soon I might be able to run it on real hardware!

A screenshot of a QEMU window showing a 1024x768 framebuffer on an ATI Rage 128 Pro, with the top part of the screenshot full of fun colours.

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